248 Quotes by Shaun David Hutchinson

So what? Who gives a shit who’s banging who?” “Whom,” Jaila said. “What?” “Who’s banging whom.” Tino tensed. “I don’t need a fucking grammar lesson.

What if you’re wrong? What if I screw up and the world burns?”Fadil shrugged. “Then I’ll buy marshmallows and we’ll watch it burn together.

We make choices. We make bad choices. But we still deserve the right to choose.

Our memories and experiences are the lenses through which we see the world, and even though Calvin and I were looking at the same exact lights, I knew we were seeing different things, and I wished I could see them through his eyes.

We have to watch Nana's life slipping away from her like a forgotten word. I thought I understood what's happening to her, but this isn't like being robbed a penny at a time. Memories aren't currency to spend; they're us. Age isn't stealing from my grandmother; it's slowly unwinding her.

Books are for ugly people.

The boxes that are supposed to help us understand one another ultimately wedge us further apart. Even worse is that we rage against the artificial divisions the boxes create, claim that we’re more complex and complicated than how we’re defined by others, and then turn around and stuff the next person we meet into one and tape the lid shut. And then, as if the indignity of life isn’t enough, when a person dies, we cram what’s left of them into one final box for eternity.

My mom loved me no matter what I did. [...] When I really screwed up, she'd tell me that she loved me but that she didn't like me very much at that moment. [...] I know that God or Fate or whatever is out there loves me, but I don't think he likes me very much.

No one is perfect, no one is flawless, and loving someone means admitting they have faults. It means loving them, not in spite of those flaws, but because of them.